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Here's a budget Chesterfield, from Rooms to Go. A grand for a 90" sofa? Not bad. A bit more Apartment Therapy price range than the Restoration Hardware sofa, though that is lovely. Rooms to Go bi cast leather is synthetic, but looks and feels good. Good color and it lasts.

I wouldn't call this 'Shabby Chic'. To my mind, 'Shabby Chic' is worn reproductions of antiques. These look like real antiques to me. And if they are reproductions, they are good ones and well thought out and put together. I am not sure that your writer of this piece is educated enough to know the difference between real antiques and reproductions, or to know when design elements are well thought out and put together, even though they may not be of the writer's personal taste. One can appreciate something well done, without wanting to live with it. I think these rooms are very well put together. And I like them. They are not amateurish, they look professionally polished. This person has a good eye.

she has become tony duquette. she has done some wonderful groundbreaking work in the past, but she looks like she lost her mind---and not in the good way.

her hand painted foyer walls and the black marked ceiling make me think that she was influenced by my former co-worker nathan egan's fabulous painted fabric chair on top design.

there are pieces i like here and there, but on the whole--noooooo, and interior design is about the sum of the parts, not being a furniture showroom.

love it!!

Nicely balanced kitchen. Not your usual run of the mill design. I probably would use a smaller table in the middle, but in general I really like it. It feels right to me.

This looks like the most elegant wonderful hotel room. I don't mean that as an insult. I used to work on hotels and they rarely have the elegance of this room, though they should. I agree that this room looks unlived in because it probably hasn't been yet. Also, designers have to go with their clients wishes. You can't fault a designer for designing an apartment that does not look like his own home. I always tell my clients, "I'm not going to live there, you are!" A designer's job is to help the client avoid design mistakes, infuse the space with the client's personalty, be beautiful and function well. This succeeds.

I moved from Savannah from NYC without ever visiting here first! I used craigslist and yelp, google images and articles about Savannah. Savannah is a beautiful tourist town and there is a lot written about SCAD. I knew I could be in a walking neighborhood, which I felt was important to me psychologically to transfer out of living in Manhattan. And I knew it was beautiful and would have enough gong on for me culturally. I didn't know how much of an 'ex-patriot' community there is here. That was a pleasant surprise, as was Tybee and the lovely marshes surrounding the city. It worked for me, but I would have loved to have something like Rentwiki.

Beautiful project. I would use those walls to create a dining room in a loft.

I had walls like that in my loft when we moved in. We ended up putting in 5" thick walls all the way up to the ceiling with sound insulation! In a brownstone-like floorthru on the second floor in Manhattan, the street noise was too much, even with the bedroom way at the back of the loft. The noise within the loft was problematic, too. If one person wants to stay up and watch TV and have the lights on, it's a nightmare for the person trying to sleep in the bedroom.

After living in a loft for 20 years, I am a firm believer in rooms, unless you live alone.

I would do each window individually. Use a double rod-one with sheers and the outer one with a heavy light blocking fabric. I would do them more like shades, so you don't lose any of the interior architecture or the view of that gorgeous building across the way.The inner one could be a light solid sheer or a beautiful lace pattern. I would hang the rod on the inside of the frame at the angle of the frame. These could be made by someone else or modified by you, by cutting and hemming the bottom so it was straight.

Can we get a how-to on the paraol lights? They're just adorable.